Sleeping Beauty Dreams Big by Joan Holub

Author:Joan Holub
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2014-02-09T16:00:00+00:00

Once inside the Grimm History of Barbarians and Dastardlies classroom, Rose was surprised to see an enormous egg walking around. Turned out, he was the teacher. He was about a foot taller than she was, with skinny legs that ended in very pointy shoes, which were twice as long as normal-size feet.

When the egg stepped toward her, she noticed that his shell was cracked in a few places. And that he wore an orange tunic and held a snazzy walking stick that he tapped on the floor now and then.

He smiled at her in welcome, causing the faint cracks in his cheeks to show a little more. “And eggsactly who might you be?” he asked.

“Rose. I’m new.” She curtsied prettily. Her tutors at the palace had spent hours teaching her the art of various curtsies. So she knew just the right way to do it when meeting a person of authority.

“I’m Mr. Hump-Dumpty. With a hyphen,” the egg-teacher informed her. He waved his walking stick toward the rows of chairs in the room. “Take any seat. They’re not assigned.”

As Rose scanned the room, Bo Peep waved her over. Glad to see someone she knew, Rose went and sat behind her.

“Looks like we have three classes together,” Little Bo Peep said to her. “You’re Rose, right?” When Rose nodded, Bo Peep asked, “Do you see my folder of homework peepers, I mean papers, by any chance? I had them two seconds ago out in the hall, but I now I can’t find them.” She leaned over to check under her chair.

“No, sorry,” Rose said, after also looking around. This girl seemed to have a real problem keeping track of her belongings.

Bo Peep sighed, then grinned. “That’s okay. I think maybe I left them in my trunker after all.”

Both girls turned to face front as the teacher spoke up. “Today we will study the Wall,” Mr. Hump-Dumpty announced. “As you all know, Grimmlandia includes the Wall, the Academy, Once Upon River, the outlying villages, and —”

He swung about suddenly and pointed the tip of his walking stick at Bo Peep. “And Neverwood Forest,” she answered easily. “So called because you ‘never would’ venture into that forest. Not if you had half a brain, anyway.”

“Correggt!” Mr. Hump-Dumpty praised her. He continued circling the room. “And what separates Grimmlandia from the Barbarians and Dastardlies?”

He swiveled suddenly to point his walking stick at Red Riding Hood. Rose hadn’t even noticed she was in the class till just now.

“The Wall. And beyond that is the Dark Nothingterror,” Red supplied. Catching Rose’s eye, she sent her a tiny wave, and Rose waved back.

“Eggsellent!” said Mr. Hump-Dumpty. “What an eggsceptional group of students you are!”

Now his walking stick whipped around, and he pointed to Rose. “And what is the Dark Nothingterror?”

“It’s where the Barbarians and Dastardlies hang out,” she answered. You didn’t need to learn that in school. Everyone in Grimmlandia already knew it. However, the casual way she said it made a few students giggle.

“Perfeggt! Now let’s talk more about them and the eggstreme danger they represent.

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